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The Scots: A Genetic Journey: Episode 2

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Alistair Moffat discovers how the story of where we all come from is written in our genes.

In a new series coinciding with the publication of the 2011 census, Alistair Moffat explores the history of where we all came from, with the help of new DNA science.

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Historian Alistair Moffat explores the history of the Scottish people, and where we all come from, in the light of new evidence from DNA science. It turns out that much of the history of population movement is written inside of us, in our genes.

Leaving East Barns in East Lothian, where you can still see traces of the land mass which once joined Scotland to the rest of Europe, Alistair tramps up Cairnpapple Hill near Linlithgow in the company of historical geneticist Jim Wilson, to discover the prehistoric traces of Scotland's first farmers, whose names are lost but whose DNA has survived to this day inside the bodies of modern Scots.

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In a series coinciding with the publication of the 2011 census, Alistair Moffat explores the history of where we all came from, with the help of new DNA science.

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